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re: Val Kilmer opens up about his experiences on the set of Tombstone (1993)
Posted on 8/14/17 at 11:18 am to RollTide1987
Posted on 8/14/17 at 11:18 am to RollTide1987
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Kurt Russell
We forget that Russell has been in the business almost 60 years. And, some of you youngsters only know him as "the cool guy" in Carpenter films such as Escape from New York, The Thing, etc., and forward.
Kurt was Disney's big adolescent star of their live action 60s and 70s stuff, and before that was in children's television. His father was Bing Russell (Deputy Foster on Bonanza). Russell played AA ball and might have made a career of it before injuring his shoulder.
And, although he has no formal directing credits, he has almost 100 acting credits on IMDB. I suspect if you had to press an actor into directing, you could do worse than Kurt Russell.
This reminds me of the story of the first Iron Man film. They started filming before the script was completed. So, Downey and Bridges ended up writing (uncredited) much of their own dialogue. The Dude describes it as "a 200 million dollar student film."
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Posted on 8/14/17 at 11:30 am to Ace Midnight
"Kurt Russell" was one of the names on the short list of projects found on Walt Disney's desk when he died. There's an old rumor that Walt's last words were "Kurt Russell", but that's been debunked. But Walt was big on Russell, and the Disney company kept him working through the 70's.
Walt used to grab young Kurt off of movie sets and bring him in to get a young person's opinion of films that were being edited.
Walt used to grab young Kurt off of movie sets and bring him in to get a young person's opinion of films that were being edited.
This post was edited on 8/14/17 at 11:32 am
Posted on 8/14/17 at 2:54 pm to Ace Midnight
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We forget that Russell has been in the business almost 60 years. And, some of you youngsters only know him as "the cool guy" in Carpenter films such as Escape from New York, The Thing, etc., and forward.
Having grown up w/the Disney channel I will always know him as the strongest man in the world.
Posted on 8/14/17 at 4:54 pm to Ace Midnight
If anyone hasnt seen the Battered Bastards of Baseball on netflix, you should watch it tonight. Its no coincidence that Kurt Russell turned into the extraordinary man he is.
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